Corset



(ModeL) T. O. BATES Corset.

Patented March 15,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE O. BATES, OF NORTH BBOOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 238,832, dated March 15, 1881. Application filed December 31, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, THEODORE G. BATES, of North Brookfield, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementin Corsets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention in corsets relates to improvements in the construction of the hip or other part of a corset, wherein is employed a series of diagonal or curved bones or stifi'enings, which intersect, or substantially so, a vertical bone or stiffening, or a seam or line of stitches.

My invention consists incovering the ends of the said series of bones or stiffenings with a vertical strip or stiEening in a separate pocket, the said stiffening acting to hold down in place the ends of all the bones or stifi'enings of the series of bones or stiffenings under it, preventing the said ends from breaking out through the corset fabric by wear, as is now very common in stiffened hip-gore corsets 1011 before the corset is otherwise worn out.

It is obvious that my improvements may be applied to "corsets of any well-known or suitable pattern or cut, wherein a series of curved or diagonal bones or stiffenings are made to meet or intersect a vertical bone or stiffening or seam.

Figure 1 represents, in side elevation, a sufficient portion of a corset to illustrate my invention, a portion of it being broken out to better illustrate its construction; Fig. 2, a section of Fig. l on the dotted line :0 m, and Fig. 3 a modification of my invention.

The series of bones a a, stitched, as usual, in pockets made between the outer and inner thicknesses, b c, of cloth composing the hipgore and side of the corset, have their upper ends pushed intothe said pockets until stopped by the seam cl, which closes-the said pockets,, all as usual. To prevent the ends of these bones or stiffenings a. from breaking out through the corset material b,I have provided above the said ends a stiffening, e, and have held itin place in a pocketin this instance made by stitching the independent strip f, of cloth, to the corset by the lines of stitching 2 3 4, the space between the lines 2 3 reoeivin g the facing-strip e, the latter covering the ends of all the bones a of the series a and holding them in place. This stift'eningstrip 6 covers the bones to at one end and adds greatly to the stiffness of hipsection. A similar strip, 0, may, if desired, be applied in a like manner to the inner side of the corset, as in Fig. 3.

In the pocket, between the lines of stitches 3 4, 1 place a steel, y, it adding materially to the stiffness of the corset under the arms. The ends of the bones It may, in like manner, be covered, protected, and held down firmly together by the uppermost bone of the series of bones a, it then acting as a fancy strip for the series of bones h.

The strip 0 will preferably be of bone but it is obvious that it may be of cane, leather, or other strong material.

I claim- 1. In a corset, a series of parallel bones or stiffening-pieces, a, inserted in pockets, combined with a stiffener, 6, extended across and covering the ends of the said series of bones a, the said stiffener 0 being in an independent pocket, substantially as specified.

2. In'a corset, the series of bones a, inserted between pieces of cloth I) 0, combined with a vertical stiffener, 6, extended over and across the bones a at their ends, the said stifiener being held in an independent pocket, and the side steel, 9, substantially as described.

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THEODORE c. BATES.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, W. H. SEGSTON. 

